A DYING CITY
CONSTANTINOPLE' Wharves Empty and Business Houses Quiet TRADE LANGUISHING BIG DROP IN POPULATION [By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] Received May JB, 9 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, May 18. Travellers from Turkey ‘declare that Constantinople is a dying city. The wharves are empty, the palaces are empty, and the banks and business houses are languishing. Steamers now go direct to the Black Sea. In addition the Trans-Caucausus railway brings the trade of Persia and Turkestan directly to Russia and Turkey is using Smyrna for much of its commerce. Finally, the exiling of the Greeks and Armeniens has deprived Constantinople of its best business men. The population is now 700,000 compared with 1,100,000 before the war.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19844, 19 May 1927, Page 7
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116A DYING CITY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19844, 19 May 1927, Page 7
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